Tunisia crisis tests Biden’s democracy and human rights agenda

For example, Omar’s Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers Act would set up an independent, bipartisan commission to make recommendations on whether to add or remove a country based on its human rights record. “We cannot force the State Department or the White House to say that a coup is a coup, that a genocide is a genocide, or that a war crime is a war crime,” Omar said. “There will always be politics. But we can add a leverage that comes from an independent panel of experts who scrutinize the facts and say, ‘This should, by law, trigger a suspension of aid.’ “